GOP Policy Experts Offer Views on a Trump NTIA

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29, 2024 - Two GOP policy experts expect federal broadband funding to change in a new Republican Donald Trump administration, with money going to alternative technologies, such as low Earth orbit satellite and perhaps unlicensed fixed wireless.

The experts engaged in a discussion moderated by New Street Research Policy Advisor Blair Levin Friday centered around the Biden administration’s $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program.

John Kneuer, the former head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration under President George W. Bush, noted that if Trump is elected, “[BEAD is] not going to stay the way it is.”